Misfit

by R. Richard

STORY DESCRIPTION

Jovin is hired to work on a tactical computer in an alien space ship, a Super Dreadnaught.
Jovin is a fourth degree Loro blackbelt, Jovin can think. Such men are dangerous.
Jovin figures out why his navy has acquired the alien ship.
Jovin is approached by a representative of the aliens.
Jovin talks with the aliens, figure out a problem and a solution. The solution could result in Jovinís death.

I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled kung-fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's kung-fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today. My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library [I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.] I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.